Cartel Added 27 Million Oz of Silver Shorts, 1.6 Million Oz Gold Shorts in Week Prior to Raid

The commercial's increased their silver net short position a massive 5,405 contracts (27.025 million ounces!) in the week ending Tuesday 2/28, the day prior to Wednesday's massive gold and silver raid.
The commercials increased their gold net short position even more drastically, piling on a net 16,049 new gold shorts, or 1.604 million ounces!
In the past 6 weeks, the commercials have increased their net silver shorts from 20,382 contracts to 44,593 net shorts!  This is an increase of 119%- or 121,055,000 ounces in only 6 weeks!!
Clearly this was all in preparation for Wednesday's main event, where 225 million ounces of paper silver, and 3 million ounces of gold were dumped on the market in mere minutes!
Expect the commercial net short position to have been greatly reduced into Wednesday's smash, which won't show up until next Friday's COT report.

Gold, Silver COT Report 3/2/12

Silver COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators			Commercial		Total
Long	Short	Spreading	Long	Short	Long	Short
38,012	8,009	19,872	33,802	78,395	91,686	106,276
3,193	-145	-1,673	2,067	7,472	3,587	5,654
Traders
80	31	33	31	48	131	93
	Small Speculators
	Long	Short	Open Interest
	24,180	9,590	115,866
	1,696	-371	5,283
	non reportable positions		Change from the previous reporting period
COT Silver Report - Positions as of				Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Silver COT Report - Futures & Options Combined

Silver COT Report - Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators			Commercial		Total
Long	Short	Spreading	Long	Short	Long	Short
41,628	6,066	46,078	48,250	99,722	135,956	151,865
6,013	202	-2,369	1,943	10,391	5,587	8,224
Traders
99	24	55	35	49	150	113
	Small Speculators
	Long	Short	Open Interest
	28,401	12,491	164,356
	2,762	125	8,349
	non reportable positions		Change from the previous reporting period
COT Silver Report - Positions as of				Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Gold COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators			Commercial		Total
Long	Short	Spreading	Long	Short	Long	Short
231,050	37,830	32,561	145,061	390,412	408,672	460,803
Change from Prior Reporting Period
16,707	4,448	2,655	-943	15,106	18,419	22,209
Traders
200	61	71	45	52	277	157
	Small Speculators
	Long	Short	Open Interest
	70,372	18,241	479,044
	3,949	159	22,368
	non reportable positions		Change from the previous reporting period
COT Gold Report - Positions as of				Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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